Occasional rantings about Dynamics CRM/365, Power BI, SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure cloud. Intrigued about how people collaborate and data driven decision making. Taking the first small steps in machine learning. Putting all of the above in practical use to help companies "embrace" their customers

Open XML Translator provides tools to build a technical bridge between the Open XML Formats and Open Document Format(ODF). As the first component of this initiative, the ODF Add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 allows to Open & Save ODF documents in Word.

Microsoft provides funding, architectural and technical guidance as well as project co-ordination. The project itself involves several partners - currently Clever Age, AztecSoft and DIaLOGIKa. If you take a look at the product roadmap you will see that a final release is scheduled for december 30th which will include both ODF to OpenXML and OpenXML to ODF translations.